Thursday, November 4, 2010

Flyers 4, Rangers 1

The New York Rangers (6-5-1) lost to the Philadelphia Flyers (8-5-1) by the score of 4-1, tonight. For a recap and box score go to Yahoo! Sports and newyorkrangers.com.

...really disappointed with the Rangers effort tonight. Sure the two fights were great, but the Rangers were not at all physical while the Flyers took every opportunity to take a shot at a Ranger. Legal or illegal.

...man the refs were god awful, how was Boogaard's tap to Shelley's leg a penalty and a lunging blow to the head of Fedotenko not?

...nice to see Prust stick up for Feds, but as Mike Keenan said in the post game the Rangers were reacting all night instead of being proactive. That was the difference tonight.

...bad giveaway by Del Zotto ends up costing Rangers tonight.

...second straight game Lundqvist gives up a bad goal at a crucial time. And to make things worse it was against Zherdev.

...someone needs to put Frolov's picture on the back of a milk carton because this guy has been missing since the start of the regular season.

...offense looked eerily similar to last year's. Which isn't a good thing. Where was the forecheck tonight?

...man I miss Blair Betts.

...Dubinsky keeps rolling along with his team leading eighth goal.

...bad game for Eminger, who, as the Rangers only physical defenseman, needed to come out taking the body and came up empty.

...despite the horrible officiating bad penalties did the Rangers in tonight.

...no time to dwell on this one as the Rangers head to The Rock tomorrow for a date with the Devils.

17 comments:

I thought the effort wasn't the worst part, it was horrible officiating, who were on the Rangers all night and it was the power play. After cashing one good goal, they were ineffective all night. Thought Boogaard, Prust and Sauer were all good tonight. Liked Boogaard getting into it with Shelly and Prust standing up for his team mates, Sauer didn't let Henrik get crashed into without someone paying for it, but the non-call on Carcillo was garbage.

Officiating sucks, but the real key was who dictated the pace of play. The team who reacts instead of creates won't win the game, simple as that. The Rangers were the reactionaries tonight.

I love how on the Dubinsky PPG, when the flyers defense was all tired and standing still, the one flyer penalty killer that was still forcing the play and putting pressure on was Blair Betts. Seriously, we should have resigned him.

You know what strikes me, when they win, everyone is euphoric and everyone loves our new team. And when they lose everyone starts comparing to last year, how they can't score, how it's the same old sh.. all over again.

losing games is part of the game. Whether we like it or not.. Don't start comparing to last year, it makes me feel bad about the team, and it shouldn't!

All fans love guys like Betts. They try hard and they sacrifice for the team. However, what all fans forget is that they are a dime a dozen. There are simply a lot of guys in the league who try hard and do the dirty work. Most Teams have a player like Betts. The rangers have a number, Callahan, Dubinsky, Boyle, Prust. A player like that is nice, but thats not what makes teams win. I cant stand when guys say, we should have resigned Betts at the cost of 1 Mil, when you can call up a player like that from hartford for less. Guys like Betts are not hard to find, and if the Flyers choose to get themselves into cap trouble, as they did this summer by signing older guys to fill those rolls then we ashould not copy them. Blair Betts has a few more years left where he will score anywhere between 10 and 20 points, and then he will go away and be forgotten. What the Rangers need is some more gaborik's and less betts's.